A Day in the Life of a Packet Part 3: 15 Years of Community-Driven Innovation
Blog Series, Part 3 of 3 This is the final post in our Day in the Life of a Packet series on the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). Part 1...
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Suchit Lepcha: The Only Microprocessor in NVIDIA’s AI Sensor Ecosystem
The difference is DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Where every other partner uses dedicated silicon to meet the latency requirements of real-time sensor streaming, NXP runs a general-purpose applications processor on Linux. DPDK's user-space packet path is what makes that viable.
DPDK Dispatch Q1 2026
DPDK Project · Q1 2026 Newsletter Fifteen years in, and the work keeps getting better Summit 2026 is six weeks away. Five new articles. One APAC roundup. Here’s what the...
DPDK at 15: From Intel’s Internal Experiment to Open Source Foundation
TL;DR Summary DPDK at 15: From Intel’s Internal Experiment to Open Source Foundation. A conversation with Jim St. Leger on shepherding a closed project into one of networking’s most enduring...
What to Watch at DPDK Summit 2026: Routers, Offloads, Verification, and Real-World DPDK
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Table of contents TL;DR Why this year’s schedule matters Four themes to watch Who should attend How to plan your summit Register now DPDK Summit...
Thomas Monjalon: Twelve Years of Building DPDK’s Open Source Community
TL;DR Summary Thomas Monjalon shares insights from twelve years as a DPDK maintainer, exploring the technical necessity of user space networking and the intensive human work required to build vendor...
Fifteen Years of Getting Stronger: What DPDK’s Community Built Together
TL;DR Summary Rashid Khan reflects on 15 years of DPDK, discussing how reliable architecture, 100% member retention, and a philosophy of leading by influence have made the project critical infrastructure...
How CHIME’s Correlator Team uses DPDK to Turn Raw Sky into Science
TL;DR / Key Results Throughput shaped in cache: CHIME’s GPU correlator path ingests UDP from FPGAs and, via DPDK poll-mode + DDIO, parses in L3 and writes non-temporal to exact...
Beyond Classification: Deep Packet Inspection, DPDK, and the Future of Encrypted Traffic Intelligence
Tobias Roeder, Application Engineer at ipoque – a Rohde & Schwarz company, has spent years working at the intersection of deep packet inspection (DPI), open source packet processing, and telecom...
